Your news links for today: Obama on net neutrality: My administration is against Internet fast lanes– Washington Post @Congressedits nabs Wikipedia change calling Snowden “American traitor”– Ars Technica Wikipedia has…
The Delaware City Refining Company doesn’t just refine oil, it refines bitumen from the Tar Sands. The company, however, is intensely aware of the dangers of climate change, so much…
Mount Polley mine tailings pond breach followed years of government warnings Imperial Metals issued with latest warning in May due to height of wastewater in tailings pond By Jenni Sheppard,…
Former premier Alison Redford with your blogger in, as they say, happier times. The reaction to former Alberta premier Alison Redford’s resignation as Calgary-Elbow MLA this morning among Opposition politicians…
It never ceases to amaze me that we continue with the charade of watching how the economy performs. Last week, we learned that the American economy grew by a whopping…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Shawnigan resident Sonia Furstenau has been following the South Island Aggregates (SIA) efforts to import 5 million tonnes of contaminated soils to their Stebbings Road property in…
Here are the leading legal headliens from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, August 6, 2014: US legal sector losses 200 jobs in July Female players say fake soccer turf…
TweetOne-hundred and thirty-six days after Alison Redford was forced to resign as Premier of Alberta, she has announced that she will resign as the MLA for Calgary-Elbow. Through an opinion-editorial…
You would think that this far into the summer, when many readers are taking a holiday from politics, that bloggers could also take a well-deserved (if not earned) break. It…
Car traffic cripples cities and destroys them. For the last hundred years the common solution to transportation issues was to cater to car drivers and this has left us with…
When writing about her adopted home of Ontario in Roughing it in the Bush, settler Susanna Moodie recalls penning a letter to Lieutenant-Governor Sir George Arthur requesting that he continue…
http://publications.mcgill.ca/ Stephen Harper claims that his is a steady hand at the economic tiller. But now even the conservative C.B. Howe Institute disputes that claim. Carol Goar writes: But as…
Yesterday I wrote about the plight of Salma Abuelaish, the eight-year-old girl whose family moved to Canada from Gaza and became Canadian citizens five years ago. Having accompanied her father,…
I recently read The Given Day, Dennis Lehane’s novel about 1919 Boston, especially the Boston police strike, and the widescale rioting that followed. The book is an engaging hybrid of…
The provincial government headquarters offices in St. John’s will be closed on Wednesday for the annual St. John’s regatta. There won’t be any news releases most likely. But so far, …
In Ontario, peaceful activists have stopped construction work on an Enbridge Line 9 pipeline site, arguing that Line 9 posed “a danger to people, animals, land, and water.” The post…
He's slashing the CBC, like only a Con, or a Jack the Ripper could. He's draining its life blood, chopping it into pieces, and cooking it in his hellish kitchen.The…
So because of my retirement I had to give up my office laptop so I bought one of my own, just another good old lenovo think pad which I’m used…
Moshe Feiglin – deputy speaker of the Knesset and a member of Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party – published a statement on his Facebook page on August 1 calling for the…
John Spencer thinks that education is filled with paradox, and lists a number of sources. I couldn’t help but notice that I didn’t see the paradox in any item on…
